1. The Davar Hashem that came to Yirmeyah concerning the batzorot (droughts).
2. Yehudah mourneth, and the she'arim (gates, i.e., towns) thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Yerushalayim is gone up.
3. And their nobles have sent their servants for mayim; they came to the cisterns, and found no mayim; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and dismayed, and covered their rosh.
4. Because the adamah is cracked, for there was no geshem in the earth, the ikkarim (plowmen) were ashamed, they covered their rosh.
5. Indeed, the deer also calved in the sadeh, and forsook it, because there was no desheh (grass).